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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @02:20AM (#47944767)
Memory safety catches buffer overflows. CI catches logic bugs. Neither catches the Unix API gotchas nobody documented.
I'm missing more about the second stage here. Clearly, writing code is an AI job, we can discuss about openspec or, like in the post, close programming with the agent.

I'm more interested in how to automate the review process and which workflows work better.

Double billing for minutes and tokens is intentional obfuscation. You can't trace actual cost.
It’s not AI’s fault. It’s like leaving an inexperienced intern alone with all the production passwords and encouraging them to experiment.

Blaming the AI or the cloud provider is like deploying an unverified tool you “found somewhere”, or running a forum script meant for a different version or a “similar enough” environment.

That’s what staging environments are for.

Re:GitHub Alternatives? on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:10PM (#47925141)
The frustration is real. But code is cheaper now.

LLMs draft in minutes. The cost of building dropped. Open source communities don't need corporate sponsorship to build alternatives—we just need people to verify and maintain what AI generates.

The proprietary wave isn't inevitable. The tools shifted to our side. The war isn't over.

For GitHub specifically: Forgejo (Codeberg), Gitea, Radicle. Self-hosted, no vendor lock-in. The alternatives exist—the question is whether people will adopt them before GitHub becomes unavoidable.

Re:Google Search Is Broken on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:37AM (#47918046)
Google killed search to serve ads. The internet is now a shopping mall
Apple takes 30% for 'review' that takes 2 days. They call it 'security'
Privacy tools from the company that scraped everyone's data without asking. The irony is lost on them.
Re:EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs on Sunday April 26, 2026 @05:56PM (#47915092)
Age verification today, digital ID tomorrow, mandatory tracking forever. The pattern never changes.
Re:Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software on Sunday April 26, 2026 @03:25AM (#47908172)
We should use them at that level. Using them just as simple tools is simply not enough.
Re:Turkey to Ban Anonymous VPNs on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:13PM (#47903763)
What a poor decision for human rights
Re:Show HN: Kaniop – Kubernetes Operator for Kanidm on Saturday April 25, 2026 @05:19AM (#47899981)
Hi - I built Kaniop, a Kubernetes operator for Kanidm.

The goal is simple. Manage my IDM in a GitOps way. I wanted a declarative operational model to configure in an easy way all my OAuth2 clients, apart from keeping track of them.

It is fully operational, and I've been using it for 6 months. In this time I've being listening the community and with some mates we improved the edge cases and tune the operator to be bullet proof.

It was working perfectly since the first day, no bugs, just minor tweaks. I handwrote it 1 year ago with a strong architecture and intensive e2e testing. Currently, I use AI for maintaining it and applying fast tweaks, it helped me keep the feedback loop fast and the tool maintainable and full of features.

The performance is great, the consumption of resources for the full services is pretty low, thanks to Rust and a good engineering job. Kanidm is awesome in that part because it doesn't require any external database, and the footprint is minimal.

I would especially like feedback on: - operator shape and CRD ergonomics - whether the GitOps identity-management angle is useful in practice - what people would expect from upgrades, backups and day-2 operations

Re:All your agents are going async on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @06:00PM (#47869848)
Why are you reinventing the wheel? This is called issue tracker.

Agents must be at human level in company communications.

If you have an example of this working just check https://forkline.dev